AMD Radeon RX 9060 vs Intel Arc A770M Comparison

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The direct benchmark comparison between the Intel Arc A770M and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 shows a split personality, with AMD taking the majority of wins but Intel posting some decisive victories in specific APIs. Out of ten head-to-head tests, the Radeon RX 9060 claims seven wins, while the Arc A770M takes three.

The most dramatic Intel result comes in the Geekbench Vulkan test, where the Arc A770M scores 74,422 against the Radeon's 39,476. That is an 88.5% advantage, the largest margin in either direction across the entire benchmark suite. The Arc A770M also wins in Geekbench OpenCL by a narrower margin, scoring 89,494 versus 88,183, a 1.5% lead. In Passmark DirectX 12, the Intel part posts 70 points against AMD's 44, a 59.1% advantage.

AMD's wins are spread across the remaining tests, and several are decisive. The Passmark GPU Compute test shows the Radeon RX 9060 at 9,919 versus the Arc's 4,778, a 51.8% lead. Passmark DirectX 11 is similarly lopsided: 182 for AMD against 69 for Intel, a 62.1% gap. In Passmark G3D, the Radeon scores 17,631 versus 11,774, a 33.2% lead. The 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 test also favors AMD, with 3,322 against 2,278, a 31.4% gap.

The remaining AMD wins are smaller but consistent. Passmark DirectX 10 shows 104 versus 56, a 46.2% lead. Passmark DirectX 9 shows 280 versus 178, a 36.4% gap. Passmark G2D shows 1,002 versus 711, a 29% lead. In aggregate, the Radeon's average benchmark score is 16,014, while the Arc's is 18,383, an unusual situation where the Intel part has a higher average despite losing more head-to-head tests. This is explained by the Arc's massive Vulkan and OpenCL scores pulling its average up. The Arc A770M sits at the 62nd percentile of all GPUs, while the Radeon RX 9060 sits at the 59th percentile.

The Arc A770M's nearest rivals in the database are the AMD Radeon RX 460 (0.1% higher average score), the AMD FirePro D500 (0.8% higher), the AMD Radeon Pro 5700 (1.1% higher), and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile (1.2% higher). The Radeon RX 9060's nearest rivals are the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (0.7% lower average score), the AMD Radeon R9 370X (1% lower), the AMD Radeon RX 7700 (1% lower), and the AMD Radeon Pro W5500 (2.1% lower). These comparisons show that both GPUs cluster tightly with their nearest peers, with deltas under 2.2% in all cases.

The Verdict

The data points to two very different usage profiles. The Intel Arc A770M is the clear choice for Vulkan-based workloads and OpenCL compute tasks. Its 88.5% Vulkan advantage over the Radeon is not a small edge; it is a dominant one. For users running Vulkan applications, the Arc is categorically faster. The same holds for OpenCL, where the Intel part edges ahead by 1.5%. DirectX 12 in the Passmark suite also favors Intel by 59.1%, though the 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 test reverses that result, indicating the advantage is workload-specific rather than universal.

The AMD Radeon RX 9060 is the better all-round performer in the Passmark suite, winning DirectX 9, 10, and 11 tests, plus G2D, G3D, and GPU Compute. The compute lead is substantial at 51.8%, and the DirectX 11 lead is even larger at 62.1%. For legacy DirectX titles and general compute workloads, the Radeon is the stronger pick. Its G3D score of 17,631 is 33.2% above the Arc's 11,774, which suggests a significant advantage in rasterized gaming scenarios that rely on the older DirectX paths.

The production status tells a story as well. The Arc A770M is marked as end-of-life, while the Radeon RX 9060 is active with a release date of August 4, 2025. The AMD part is also a dual-slot card with a 1x 8-pin power connector and a 300 W suggested PSU, whereas the Intel part is an integrated IGP with no power connector listed. For a new build, the Radeon is the safer bet. For a specific Vulkan or OpenCL use case, the Arc's performance edge is real, but its end-of-life status makes it a legacy option.

FAQ

Q: Which GPU wins the most head-to-head benchmarks?

A: The AMD Radeon RX 9060 wins 7 of the 10 head-to-head tests, while the Intel Arc A770M wins 3.

Q: What is the biggest performance gap between the two cards?

A: The Intel Arc A770M leads by 88.5% in the Geekbench Vulkan test, scoring 74,422 versus the Radeon's 39,476. The AMD Radeon RX 9060 leads by 62.1% in Passmark DirectX 11, scoring 182 versus 69.

Q: How do their average benchmark scores compare?

A: The Intel Arc A770M has a higher average benchmark score at 18,383, compared to the Radeon RX 9060's 16,014, despite the Radeon winning more individual tests.

Q: What are the percentile rankings for each GPU?

A: The Intel Arc A770M sits at the 62nd percentile of all GPUs, while the AMD Radeon RX 9060 sits at the 59th percentile.

Q: Which GPU has the better compute performance in Passmark tests?

A: The AMD Radeon RX 9060 scores 9,919 in Passmark GPU Compute, a 51.8% lead over the Intel Arc A770M's 4,778.

Q: Which GPU is currently in production?

A: The AMD Radeon RX 9060 is marked as active, with a release date of August 4, 2025. The Intel Arc A770M is marked as end-of-life.

Specification Differences

The two GPUs differ across nearly every core specification. The Intel Arc A770M uses a DG2-512 chip with 21,700 million transistors on a 406 mm² die, while the AMD Radeon RX 9060 uses a Navi 44 chip with 29,700 million transistors on a much smaller 199 mm² die. This gives the AMD part a transistor density of 149.2M per mm² versus Intel's 53.4M per mm².

Memory configurations are starkly different. The Arc A770M offers 16 GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus with 512.0 GB/s bandwidth and a memory clock of 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective). The Radeon RX 9060 offers 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus with 288.0 GB/s bandwidth and a memory clock of 2250 MHz (18 Gbps effective). The Intel card has double the memory capacity and nearly double the bandwidth.

Compute resources also diverge. The Arc A770M has 4,096 shading units, 256 TMUs, 128 ROPs, and 32 RT cores. The Radeon RX 9060 has 1,792 shading units, 112 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and 28 RT cores. Despite having fewer shading units, the Radeon achieves higher FP32 throughput at 21.43 TFLOPS versus the Arc's 16.79 TFLOPS. The Radeon also has higher pixel rate and texture rate per core, but the Arc's larger core count gives it a higher absolute pixel rate of 262.4 GPixel/s versus 191.4 GPixel/s, and a higher texture rate of 524.8 GTexel/s versus 334.9 GTexel/s.

Clock speeds favor AMD. The Radeon has a base clock of 1700 MHz, a boost clock of 2990 MHz, and a game clock of 2400 MHz. The Arc has a base clock of 1650 MHz and a boost clock of 2050 MHz. Power draw is similar, with the Radeon at 132 W TDP and the Arc at 120 W TDP, but the Radeon is a dual-slot card with a 1x 8-pin connector and a 300 W suggested PSU, while the Arc is an IGP with no connector listed.

Architecture Differences

The architectural divide is generational. The Intel Arc A770M is built on Xe-HPG architecture, specifically the Alchemist generation for Arc 7 Mobile, using a 6 nm process at TSMC. The AMD Radeon RX 9060 is built on RDNA 4.0 architecture, specifically the Navi IV generation for the RX 9000 series, using a 4 nm process at TSMC. Both use TSMC as the foundry, but the process node difference is significant: 6 nm versus 4 nm.

The chip codenames reflect the different lineages. Intel's chip is DG2-512, while AMD's chip is Navi 44 with the codename Strix Point. The Radeon's predecessor is listed as Navi III, and it belongs to the Radeon RX 9000 series. The Arc has no listed series, predecessor, or successor.

FP16 capabilities differ notably. The Arc A770M achieves 33.59 TFLOPS FP16 with a 2:1 ratio relative to FP32, meaning it doubles its throughput for half-precision work. The Radeon RX 9060 achieves 21.43 TFLOPS FP16 with a 1:1 ratio, meaning it does not accelerate FP16 beyond its FP32 rate. This is a meaningful distinction for compute workloads that use half precision.

The bus interface also differs. The Arc uses PCIe 4.0 x16, while the Radeon uses PCIe 5.0 x16. Display outputs are portable device dependent for the Arc, while the Radeon lists 1x HDMI 2.1b and 2x DisplayPort 2.1a. Both support DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4. The Radeon's FP32 throughput of 21.43 TFLOPS versus the Arc's 16.79 TFLOPS is the single largest compute advantage for AMD, while the Arc's 32 RT cores versus the Radeon's 28 RT cores suggests a slight edge in ray tracing hardware count, though benchmark data for RT-specific tests is not recorded.